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Redbelly Crossing (Candice Fox, Penguin)

Tuesday, 17 February 2026    Books+Publishing
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Candice Fox (Crimson Lake) opens Redbelly Crossing with immediate authority: a rural pub, a blood-smeared doorknob and the uneasy sense that something deeply wrong has slipped quietly into an ordinary morning. The opening chapters deftly interweave multiple perspectives. Publican Rob Winter’s procedural dread gives way to fractured family dynamics among...

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